Dealing with Secret Sins

"Secret sins of which the sinner repents, after being admonished by one person in private or in the presence of two or three witnesses, shall not be laid before the consistory." Art. 73, D.K.O. "If any one, having been admonished in love concerning a secret sin by two or three persons, does not give heed, or otherwise has committed a public sin, the matter shall be reported to the consistory." Art. 74, D.K.O. It will be evident that Articles 73 and 74 of the Church Order, quoted above, are...